by Joe Weil Academia
If Plato came back today and saw the workshop, craft obsessed nature of poetics, he’d give his approval, but not for reasons poets might like: Plato would approve because the stupidity of inspiration has been removed from the writing of poems.
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by Gene Tanta Academia
The poetry lesson is that poetry is a practice.
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